Apple unveiled its new Siri at WWDC 2026. It's more capable and more conversational and comes with its own dedicated app. Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features writer. Officially, she is CNET ...

Rivian is rolling out its new AI-powered voice assistant to all Gen 1 and Gen 2 R1 owners as part of its latest over-the-air software update. The feature, activated by saying “Hey Rivian” or holding ...

Voice control has been around in cars forever, and digital assistants are hardly new. Rivian Assistant, though, is promising to be a new kind of both that not only talks to you conversationally but ...

Google launched its big AI-fueled redesign of Google Home late last year, and it has been adding features here and there ever since. Today, the company announced a bigger update that might take care ...

The MiciMike Home Mini Drop-In PCB is an open-source replacement mainboard designed to convert a 1st Gen Google Home Mini into a fully local, privacy-focused voice assistant running Home Assistant ...

N.E.S.T. (Network for Endangered Sea Turtles), as part of its effort to improve sea turtle habitat on the Outer Banks, is proud to announce the planned retrofitting of the Nags Head Fishing Pier to ...

AI voice chat makes it easy to talk things through instead of typing everything out. With Copilot Voice, conversations feel natural, responses come back out loud, and you can stay productive while ...

This project is a simple AI Voice Assistant built using Python. It can listen to user voice commands, process them, and respond using speech. Along with building this assistant, I focused on improving ...

Cloud-based AI dominates the headlines, but responsive and private interaction lies at the edge. This blog post shows how to build a fully offline, real-time voice assistant using the Arm-based NVIDIA ...

The Turtle Creek Chorale this week announced its 46th season featuring “performances that are expansive in scale, emotional in depth and unmistakably Texan.” “In a year marked by historic milestones ...

Many people buy a sleek smart speaker and end up using it for just three things: checking the weather, playing music, and setting kitchen timers. That mismatch is absurd because this device was never ...